A Ferrari owned by John Lennon has been sold for £359,900 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
The 1965 330GT 2+2 Coupe was purchased by the Beatle the month after he passed his driving test and was the first car to be owned by him. It was expected to fetch in the region of £180,000 - £220,000; an estimate which was comfortably exceeded.
Once news got around that Lennon had passed his driving test, luxury car dealers turned up at his house in a whole range of exotic automobiles hoping to make a high profile sale.
The superstar opted for the £6,500 Ferrari, finished in Azzuro blue and with a blue interior, and went on to cover more than 20,000 miles in it before selling it on in 1967.
A host of other cars were sold in the Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed auction, which became the highest grossing auction of motor cars in Europe. Over £36 million was raised.
A Mercedes race car driven by legendary F1 driver Juan Manuel Fangio fetched £19.6 million, becoming the most expensive car ever sold at auction, while a 1955 Maserati 300S Sports-Racing Spider was sold for £4,033,500.
There were phone bidders from 32 countries and the auction was viewed by over 1,000 people at Goodwood.
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